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From: wombat@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Is GNU Cause of Security Problems??
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Date: 4 May 88 01:00:00 GMT
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Nf-From: urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM!wombat    May  3 20:00:00 1988


It could be that emacs makes it more obvious when you've left /etc
writable. Since it moves files around instead of directly writing into
existing files, if the mode on /etc is 777 and the mode on /etc/passwd
is 644, blindly typing 'emacs /etc/passwd' will show up the problem
faster than 'vi /etc/passwd'. I remember being very surprised the first
time this happened to me.

  "I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly.
  "That's not the answer to *every* problem in interpersonal relations,"
Cobb said.				*Software*, Rudy Rucker
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